Hugo Richard Eckermann^[1]

1896 - 1985  (89 years)

• Name	Hugo Richard Eckermann
  Birth	28 Apr 1896  [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Aug 1985  [2, 3]
  Person ID	I2339	Wendel Voigt Family Tree
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Edmund W. Eckermann,   b. 8 Nov 1865   d. 30 Dec 1948 (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Mary Magdeline Herbrig,   b. 1875   d. 6 Nov 1964 (Age 89 years)
  Siblings	1. Edmund J. Eckermann   b. 2 NOV 1893;   d. 16 MAR 1967;
  	2. Hugo Richard Eckermann
  	3. Hedwig Frieda "Hattie" Eckermann   b. 5 AUG 1899;   d. 23 NOV 1972;
  	4. Norma Emma Eckermann   b. 15 DEC 1902;   d. Y;
  	5. Robert Herman Eckermann   b. 3 JUN 1905;   d. OCT 1984;
  	6. Alfred Louis Eckermann   b. 24 APR 1909;   d. 15 DEC 1989;
  	7. Anita Mary Eckermann   b. 12 JUL 1912;   d. BEF 1999;
  	8. Miles Bernhard Eckermann   b. 12 APR 1915, Industry, Austin Co., Texas;   d. 12 JUL 2000, Bryan, Brazos Co., Texas;
  	9. Milton Clarence Eckermann   b. 25 AUG 1922;   d. Y;
  	10. Laura Eckermann   d. Y;
  Family ID	F973	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bernice Mildred Delion,   b. 20 Jan 1914   d. Yes, date unknown  [4, 5]
  Marriage License	17 Feb 1931	Bellville, Austin Co., Texas   [5]
  Marriage	25 Feb 1931	Austin Co., Texas
  Children	+ 1. Alice Jeanette Eckermann + 2. Rubin Eckermann + 3. Darlene Ruth Eckermann
  Family ID	F1040	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jan 2024

  
  

• Event Map		Marriage License - 17 Feb 1931 - Bellville, Austin Co., Texas Marriage - 25 Feb 1931 - Austin Co., Texas  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: As a child Hugo assisted his family with their crops, picking cotton, etc. The family could pick a bale of cotton every other day, a total of approximately 1500 pounds. He and his father did some carpenter work togehter, and Hugo thought of himself as a "jack of all Trades" because he learned to do so many things as a child which he continued to do as an adult. Hugo and his wife Bernice made their home in the Schoenau area in Texas. Hugo Eckermann tells this story, "I was confirmed in 1912 in the Industry Methodist Church by the Reverend Jacob Ott, attended school in Schoenau where my teachers were Mamie Banks and John Ahlhorn. I was born on the farm now owned by Lanard Luetge, but moved farther down toward the Mill Creek with my family later. During July and August we cooked molasses for people in the community. They would bring sorghum, sugar cane, or ribbon cane to have syrup made. Usually they paid for the job by giving part of the finished product, which we then sold to those who came to buy." Mr. Eckermann remembers getting about 45 or 50 cents per gallon for the syrup, and he recalls cooking for as little as five and one-half cents per gallon. "As a carpenter I received 15 cents per hour for the first house I assisted in building. That was in 1917 when hand saws, hammer, etc. were all handled and worked manually, with all lumber being put into place piece by piece and held until nailed. The first house I contracted to do with the assistance of members of the family was the Kautz house after their home burned in 1925. This house now stands in Industry where it was moved when Ella Kautz came to Industry to live. For this house I received 35 cents an hour. Thirty years later I built my last house which is the one on Highway 159 in which Robert and Hattie Lindemann lived." The house was later owned by Dennis Geistmann. [Luetge, SCISSORTAILS STILL RETURN TO SCHOENAU, p. 18]

  
  

• Sources

  [S26] SCISSORTAILS STILL RETURN TO SCHOENAU, pp. 18, 20. BIOGRAPHY: Photograph of Hugo on page 20. [S26] SCISSORTAILS STILL RETURN TO SCHOENAU, pp. 18, 20. Photograph of Hugo on page 20. [S176] Social Security Death Records Index - SSN's Issued in Texas, SSN 452-68-8516. Hugo Eckermann, b. 04/28/1896, d. 08/00/1985. [S26] SCISSORTAILS STILL RETURN TO SCHOENAU, pp. 18, 19, 20. Photograph of Hugo on page 20. Photograph of Bernice on page 20. [S779] Index of Marriages of Austin County 1921-1974, [Eckermann p. 326]. Hugo R. Eckermann and Miss Bernice M. A. Delion, Vol. N, p. 456, 17 Feb 1931.